Souls without prayer are like bodies, palsied and lame, having hands and feet they cannot use.
TERESA OF AVILADon’t let your sins turn into bad habits.
More Teresa of Avila Quotes
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Souls who do not practice prayer are like people whose limbs are paralyzed.
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If you seek to carry no other crosses but those whose reason you understand, perfection is not for you.
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True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes.
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From heaven even the most miserable life will look like one bad night at an inconvenient hotel.
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All blessings come to us through our Lord. He will teach us, for in beholding His life we find that He is the best example.
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Life is a night spent in an uncomfortable inn.
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Be kind to all and severe to thyself.
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It is a dangerous thing to be satisfied with ourselves.
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True perfection consists in the love of God and our neighbour, and the better we keep both these commandments, the more perfect we shall be.
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Any real ecstasy is a sign you are moving in the right direction.
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There is more value in a little study of humility and in a single act of it than in all the knowledge in the world.
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About the injunction of the Apostle Paul that women should keep silent in church? Don’t go by one text only.
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From silly devotions and from sour-faced saints, good Lord, deliver us.
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This body of ours has one fault: the more you indulge it, the more things it discovers to be essential to it. It is extraordinary how it likes being indulged.
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Union is as if in a room there were two large windows through which the light streamed in; it enters in different places but it all becomes one.
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